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Brad Rutter. Brad Rutter is the biggest all-time money winner on Jeopardy! and briefly held the record for biggest cumulative game show winnings for any U.S. game show contestant. Rutter retained the record for Jeopardy! winnings with either $4,255,102 (or $4,270,102, including a pair of Chevrolet Camaros ).
Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin. The show is a quiz competition that reverses the traditional question-and-answer format of many quiz shows. Rather than being given questions, contestants are instead given general knowledge clues in the form of answers and they must identify the person, place, thing, or ...
The Jeopardy! Teen Tournament, which began in 1987, was an annual tournament in which 15 high school students between the ages of 13 and 17 competed in a ten-episode tournament structured similarly to the Tournament of Champions. The winner receives $100,000 and entry into the Tournament of Champions.
All-time winnings: $4,938,436. Brad Rutter is by far the biggest winner of all time in Jeopardy! history. Rutter became a five-time champion in 2000 — but his streak didn’t end there.
January 14, 2020. ( 2020-01-14) Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time is a special tournament limited-run series of the game show Jeopardy! that took place in January 2020. The tournament was produced for ABC and aired on the network in prime time. This was the second time a Jeopardy! competition aired on network television (regular shows air in ...
His all-time winnings are $4,938,436 and Jennings' are $4,370,700. ... Brad Rutter, Larissa Kelly, and David Madden with Alex Trebek, winners of the first-ever "Jeopardy!" team championship in 2019.
Children. 2. Website. ken-jennings .com. Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) is an American game show host, former game show contestant, and author. He is best known for his work on the syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! as a contestant and later its host. Jennings was born in Seattle, Washington but grew up in South Korea and Singapore.
Ken Jennings is the highest-earning American game show contestant of all time, having accumulated a total of $5,296,214 over the course of twenty years. He took the record back from Brad Rutter as the highest-earning contestant (a record Rutter had held since 2014) by virtue of his victory on January 14, 2020, in the Jeopardy!